Alation
1. Category : Artificial Intelligence
2. Domain : Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Information Technology, Software
3. Founders : Aaron Kalb, Feng Niu, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti
4. Established : Dec 12, 2012
5. Number of Employees : 101 – 250
6. Operating Status : Active
7. Funding status : Late Stage Venture
8. Website : alation.com
9. Country : San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast
10. Latest in News : Alation to match donations to assist in Australian fire recovery efforts.
Alation is a data catalog company, where they empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights by using artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing to help businesses. The company combines machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions.
Alation builds a data-fluent world by changing the way people find, understand and trust data and automatically captures the rich context of enterprise data, including what the data describes, who has used it, and it fits between the data with different types of analysis.
Alation works with three sources; See your data, Understand your data, Collaborate your data and Crawls & Indexes Oracle
- MySQL
- SQLServer
- Teradata
- Redshift
- Tableau
- Many more…
Alation is a complete repository for all the data assets & data knowledge in your organization and understands the data with the help of samples data & monitors usage to ensure that users have accurate insight into data accuracy and it also includes collaboration of data by deep insight into how users are creating & sharing knowledge from raw data.
Alation is an automated data catalog, indexes all your data and the technical metadata is surfaced where it is most relevant to users and also helps to show interactive linegraph relationships between raw data and tables.
Alation uses search techniques perfected in the consumer space to simplify & automate creating an inventory of your data assets and by connecting Alation to your data sources helps to crawls & indexes data assets stored across different physical repositories.
Company automatically ingests user permissions, technical metadata and business descriptions into a central repository that is a foundational resource for all data users in your organization.
